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Summary

Distilled from Donald Palmer's more than 30 years of teaching experiences, this approachable text, historically organized text exemplifies Dr. Palmer's very successful light-hearted approach to teaching introduction to philosophy. Through the use of humor, drawings, charts, and diagrams, serious philosophical topics come alive for the readers--without compromising the seriousness of the subject matter. The text can be used as a core text or as a supplement to any reader.

Table of Contents

Preface

iii

Introduction

1

(9)

I. The Pre-Socratic Philosophers

Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C.E.

10

(38)

Thales

13

(3)

Anaximander

16

(6)

Anaximenes

22

(2)

Pythagoras

24

(3)

Heraclitus

27

(4)

Parmenides

31

(2)

Zeno

33

(3)

Empedocles

36

(2)

Anaxagoras

38

(3)

Leucippus and Democritus

41

(7)

II. The Athenian Period

Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.

48

(43)

The Sophists

48

(6)

Protagoras

49

(1)

Gorgias

50

(1)

Thrasymachus

51

(1)

Callicles and Critias

52

(2)

Socrates

54

(5)

Plato

59

(13)

Aristotle

72

(19)

III. The Hellenistic and Roman Periods

Fourth Century B.C.E. through Fourth Century C.E.

91

(13)

Epicureanism

91

(4)

Stoicism

95

(5)

Neoplatonism

100

(4)

IV. Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Fifth through Fifteenth Centuries

104

(50)

Saint Augustine

108

(5)

The Encyclopediasts

113

(2)

John Scotus Eriugena

115

(3)

Saint Anselm

118

(3)

Muslim and Jewish Philosophies

121

(5)

Averroës

123

(1)

Maimonides

124

(2)

The Problem of Faith and Reason

126

(1)

The Problem of the Universals

127

(3)

Saint Thomas Aquinas

130

(12)

William of Ockham

142

(4)

Renaissance Philosophers

146

(8)

V. Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

154

(73)

Descartes

154

(19)

Hobbes

173

(4)

Spinoza

177

(5)

Leibniz

182

(6)

Locke

188

(8)

Berkeley

196

(5)

Hume

201

(9)

Kant

210

(17)

VI. Post-Kantian British and Continental Philosophy

The Nineteenth Century

227

(72)

Hegel

227

(10)

Schopenhauer

237

(9)

Kierkegaard

246

(12)

Marx

258

(13)

Nietzsche

271

(9)

Utilitarianism

280

(8)

Bentham

280

(5)

Mill

285

(3)

Frege

288

(11)

VII. Pragmatism, the Analytic Tradition, and the Phenomenological Tradition and Its Aftermath